Practice-Eligibility Route (PER) to Certification

The Royal College is pleased to offer a new route to certification for Pain Medicine, for specialists who did their subspecialty training before accredited training programs existed: the Practice Eligibility Route for Subspecialists (PER-sub). Please note there are slightly different criteria for those who have been in practice for 1-5 years versus those in practice for greater than 5 years.

Process for PER-sub Applications

Cohort 1: Applicant must have completed five (5) years of practice in Pain Medicine (the last two years of this period should have been in practice in Canada). Practice in Pain Medicine is defined as having at least 60 hours in a four (4)-week period for acute/chronic/cancer pain including research, education and/or administrative activities.

Cohort 2: In practice between 1 year to 5 years. Applicants must be in practice in Canada for a minimum of one year at their current practice location at the time they apply for certification via PER-sub.

Proof of completion of training that is equivalent in length to the requirements set out in the new subspecialty’s Specialty Training Requirements (STR).

The Pain Medicine Specialty Committee developed specific assessment criteria corresponding to the unique nature of Pain Medicine. Fellows can now complete a specialty-specific application and submit it to the Credentials Unit for review. When the Credentials Unit has approved these documents, which include scope-of-practice information and multi-source feedback, specialty committee assessors will review them. Approval by the specialty committee means that eligibility to the certification examination is then granted.

To be considered for the 2018 examination, the application deadline is August 30, 2017. The deadline for the 2017 examination is closed. The current application fee is $865.00. The Royal College looks forward to assisting you through to certification.